Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-09-09
Farm and Garden Notes.

White Plymouth Rocks, white Javas
and white Wyandottes appear to be enjoy
ing "boomp as fancy stock.
Fall chickens may be reared as easily
and proftably as spring chickens, in the
opinion of a Tennessee poultryman.
Are rose bugs poisonous9 A farmer is
reported to have given quart of them
to his chickens with the result-chickens
all died.
Authorities differ as to the best time
to cut hay. AS rule farmers wait too
long before cutting, and to strike it just
right requires judgment and experience.
Save the wood ashes to use as fer
tilizer 1t is more profitable than to
sell them to the soapmakers. Wood
ashes never come amiss on the farm or In
the garden.
The class of roses termed hybrid per.
petuals or commonly H. P.'s, while by
no means perpetual bloomers, as the name
would seem to signify, are the favorites
among those who love the rose.
If the earth turns up lumpy after the
plough roll and harrow it reasonably
fine at once without waiting for rain. A
light shower which would not moisten
large Jumps will render small ones fit to
mou der as fine as ashes.
Old leather contains considerable per-
centage of ammonia compounds, which,
though said to be insoluble are, in fact,
very slowly soluble. A good way to
disp pose of old boots, therefore, is to
bury them at the foot of an apple tree.
A box kept we'll supplied with ashes
in which charcoal is found should bG
with reach of hogs all the time at this
season of the year. Like all grass feed
ers, they arc apt to be troubled with
acidity of the stomach, and the coal and
ashes correct this.
Hogs are excellent cleaners of the
wheat fields. We have never observed
any i'll effects upon the animals if there
is plenty of clover and water as well as
some wheat in the field. Sheep, on the
other hand, we should hardly care to
trust on the stubbles.
If the air in the cellar is too damp the
dampness can be removed by placing a
peck or so of unslacked lime in an open
box on the floor. A peck of unslacked
lime will absorb about seven pounds, or
more than three quarts of water, and in
this way the air in cellar can always be
kept dry.
A correspondent of the Sprinfeld Re
paBlican writes: "The poorest commodity
in farming, with few exceptions, is farm
labor, and those that have the most are
the most afflicted The old-fashioned
hired man. that took an interest in his
employer, and worked from sun to sun
when it was necessary, is almost obsolete.
A new crop of farm laborers is greatly
needed"
The growth of calf that is intended
for raising should be pushed from the
time it is weaned until a year or so old.
Such treatment not only predisposes the
calf to take on flesh, but the longer it is
continued the sooner the animal will
reach maturity. A few nubbins of corn
or a handful or two of oats given daily in
addition to their grass is the best posi-
BILE food to hasten their growth, and it is
Just such combination as will form flesh
and fat.
; There is just as much difference in
feeding for eggs as there is in feeding fol
lean meat or fat. The farmers wife
complains that her hens don't lay, al
| though she gives them all the corn they
will eat. But here is just where the
l trouble comes in. The egg is composed
largely of albumen, and to produce i
e the hen must have albuminous food. She
s can't make eggs without albumen any
t more than the children of Israel could
S make bricks without straw. Feed thu
c hen on fattening food, such as corn, anc
she lines herself with fat, ia les thing
easy, and lays no eggs.